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Immune Resilience: It Takes Two to Tango
Leading Industry Organization Speaks Directly to Natural Practitioner Readers
Michael Edson, MS, LAc
Michael Edson, MS, LAc is a co-founder and president of Natural Eye Care, Inc. He is co-author of Natural Eye Care: A Comprehensive Manual for Practitioners of Oriental Medicine and Natural Eye Care: Your Guide to Healthy Vision and Healing. His latest book is Natural Parkinson’s Support: Your Guide to Preventing & Managing Parkinson’s. His ...
Xylooligosaccharides: The Low-dose Prebiotic
Dietary prebiotics are typically fiber compounds that human beings cannot digest. However, prebiotics can be digested by the friendly probiotic bacteria that reside in our gut, nourishing them, stimulating their growth or activity and helping them to colonize the large intestine.1 In the world of dietary supplements, there are several prebiotics from which to choose—perhaps ...
Silver: Detailing the Health Benefits and the Science Behind It
When the average person thinks of silver, it is not likely that the first thing that comes to mind is that it may be good for your health. Silver has been used for centuries for its medicinal properties, dating back to the ancient Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and Phoenicians. Silver is an element that is found ...
Ovaries and Intestines Have Taste Receptors?
Truth can be stranger than fiction. This is one of those moments. Everyone knows that we have taste “buds” in our mouths. These are actual taste receptor proteins, and though discovered in the early 2000s, we now also know that they exist outside of the oral cavity. Here is where it gets weird. We have ...
Marc Grossman, OD, LAc
Marc Grossman, OD, LAc, is a leading holistic optometrist in practice since 1980. Internationally respected, he has taught many hundreds of practitioners and physicians in his methods. An influential pioneer, practitioner and teacher in natural and integrative eye care, Dr. Grossman is in the forefront of the holistic vision care movement and the mind-body connection. ...
Plant-based Protein: Beyond the Vegetables
Right now, the nutrition industry is seeing a shift in trends, with more and more products on the market and in the pipeline that are touting the benefits of plant-based protein. This boom in product development and marketing is due, in part, to the significant amount of research that has come out in recent years ...
French Grape & Wild Blueberry Extracts to Enhance Memory and Learning Capacity
Dietary supplements marketed as cognitive enhancers generally fall into two primary categories: those that enhance memory in aging adults with cognitive decline, and those positioned as nootropics—supplements that improve one or more aspects of cognitive function in healthy people of different age groups, including students. Often, research on nutraceuticals used in either type of supplement ...
Lessons From 45 Years: 8 Tips to Thrive as a Healer
I started medical school in 1972. But my time as a healer truly began in 1975, after I came down with postviral CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) and fibromyalgia. This forced me to drop out of medical school and left me homeless, sleeping in parks. It was during this spiritual journey that I learned intimately about ...
Decrease Stress By Aligning Your Life So You Don’t Have to Think as Much
My dad always told me if you love what you do, you’ll never have to work a day in your life. Expand this concept to the people you’re with, hobbies and overall health routines, and we realize we’re only as strong as our weakest link. We only have a finite amount of physical energy throughout ...
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